{"product_id":"9780316438643","title":"Cold Snap: Stories","description":"Following his celebrated debut collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Pugilist at Rest\u003c\/i\u003e, National Book Award nominee Thom Jones delivers a lacerating collection of stories that plunges us once again into an edgy, adrenalized world of desire, mania, and rage. In ten new stories, Jones introduces us to hard-luck fighters steeling themselves for battles they've already lost, doctors who fall in love with their illnesses, and a strung-out advertising writer who uses the hand of the devil to do the work of God. At the end of the day, the only ones still standing have gone head-to-head with the world's brutality--and remain ready, hopelessly potent yet irreversibly doomed, to battle all over again. Thom Jones has a wicked appetite for existential calamity and unflagging humor in its presence; his writing is mesmerizing, sometimes fevered, and impossible to put down. \u003ci\u003eCold Snap\u003c\/i\u003e resoundingly confirms what thousands already know: Thom Jones is here to stay.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069878747376,"sku":"9780316438643","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316438643_p0.jpg?v=1769916804","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316438643","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}